Change is good. Journal Record President and Publisher Mary Mélon reminded managers of that during her last Monday afternoon department head meeting. After 20 years at the paper, 13 as publisher, Mélon will bid farewell on Friday.

Never mind compassion. If capital punishment is more expensive than imprisonment, if convictions are less than foolproof and executions less than humane, and if killing the killer does not deter crime, Oklahomans should set aside their bloodlust in favor of caution, prudence and economy.

The Legislature balked at the Common Core standards because they perceived it to be an instance of the federal government telling the states what to do; "federal overreach" is the term most often applied. But this is another case of the raven chiding blackness.

You’ve decided you want to get a job. The first thing you may want to do is update your LinkedIn profile. But, this is the problem. You’re doing a few things wrong. Those things are going to slow down your search, and you don’t even know it.